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    Little WomenLittle Women

    by Louisa May Alcott

    Classic American Literature

    United States

    This charming gift edition, Race Point Publishing, New York, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group USA, first printing 2014, in very good condition.The boards are covered in a printed pattern of flowers in green and grey on a soft pink ground, with a cream panel label to the front board carrying the title and author name. The book includes a classic frontispiece illustration by the celebrated American illustrator Jesse Wilcox Smith. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. The binding is firm and tight. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, the American novelist born in Pennsylvania in 1832 and most closely associated with Concord, Massachusetts, where she grew up in the circle of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. First published in 1868, the novel follows the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. A classic of American literature.

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    The American Claimant and Pudd'nhead WilsonThe American Claimant and Pudd'nhead Wilson

    by Mark Twain

    Classic American Literature

    United States

    A beautiful hardcover edition in very good condition. Boards are clean throughout, navy blue leatherette to the spine and back with a grey coated front board bearing a gold "MT" monogram in script, and a red spine label with gilt lettering and decorative gilt scrollwork. Pages are clean and unmarked with deckle edges throughout. No dust jacket, as issued. The American Claimant and Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain. Nelson Doubleday Inc., Garden City, New York, circa 1980. Published by arrangement with Harper & Row under the S. L. Clemens / Mark Twain trademark. Part of the Nelson Doubleday six-volume collected works of Mark Twain, printed on quality deckle-edge paper. The American Claimant (1892) is a satirical comedy of mistaken identity; Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a darker satire of race and identity set in the antebellum South.

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    Jack London: Call of the Wild; White Fang; The Sea-WolfJack London: Call of the Wild; White Fang; The Sea-Wolf

    by Jack London

    Classic American Literature

    United States

    A handsome edition of Jack London's celebrated works. This volume, containing Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf, is in new condition. The pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked. The deep navy faux leather boards are clean and unmarked, with a gilt-ruled border and central gilt lettering. Top edge gilt.

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    Moby-Dick: or, the White WhaleMoby-Dick: or, the White Whale

    by Herman Melville

    Classic American Literature

    United States

    A fine softcover edition in new condition, with crisp unmarked pages and a perfect binding. This edition is rendered in modern English and is not the unabridged original.

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    The Last Tycoon: An Unfinished NovelThe Last Tycoon: An Unfinished Novel

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited with a foreword by Edmund Wilson

    Classic American Literature

    United States

    This beautiful edition is in fine condition. The pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked, remaining tight and square in their binding. Edmund Wilson, a close friend of Fitzgerald and a respected literary critic, edited the surviving drafts and notes and published them in 1941 as The Last Tycoon: An Unfinished Novel.

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    Tender is the Night (The Penguin English Library)Tender is the Night (The Penguin English Library)

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Classic American Literature

    United States

    This beautiful first printing softcover edition is in near fine condition, with no marks or tears and only minimal shelf wear. The pages are tight, appear unread, and the book is tight, square, and unmarked.

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